The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.

The primary source of commercial cork. The outer layer is harvested from this tree manually with a hatchet. The first cutting takes place when the tree is 25 years old, and it can be harvested once a decade thereafter. Harvesting the cork does not harm the tree, and a new layer of cork is gradually regenerated (100 trees at the Weizmann Institute of Science).